Show me a netbook that's projected to sell 10 million units and support a media and application infrastructure that will allow it's manufacturer to continually reap income from the device long after sale?
Thought not.
Come Christmas, the iPad will be *the* tech item to buy.
Given the iPhone OS 3.2's now hooking Bluetooth keyboards into the keyboard API(Not to mention the Apple Dock keyboard), I'd easily say that no, the iPad IS meant for content creation.
It's just not ment to ape the Netbook formfactor. If I'm at my favorite bar, there's enough room in my bag for a stand, an ipad, and a bluetooth minikeyboard for use with things like SSHTerm should I be called about critical failures with something or another.
How did they make cartridge games in the old days, do you think?
There's a reason why you can make a shield out of used Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt carts and some carts are priced in the collector world at several thousands of dollars.
They made either a lot of them, and if the game flopped, took a huge loss, or didn't make many of them and leave the game's availability scarce.
Discs make sense. Cheap to produce, and you can produce less of them if you think you're just filling a niche audience, and you can produce more units quickly and cheaply should your game turn out to be a runaway hit.
Street Fighter II: World Warrior - SNES: 79.99 Super Street Fighter IV - PS3/Xbox: 39.99
Not only are discs *cheaper*, they have an advantage over ROMs. You can do small sized batches of say, 10k discs, but ROMs had to be sold in lots an order of magnitude greater or more.
I love Top Gear and Doctor Who, like any self respecting fanboy.
In Top Gear's case, I don't want to wait until it's on BBCAmerica, and I don't want them to cut the News, or any of it(which they do to fit in advertising; also, it's censored). I'm willing to pay upwards to $2-$5 an episode if it meant I could download it from a source that's connected to a very fast pipe and released same day as the BBC UK airing.
Not only that, but all that stuff off die is quite frankly, slower.
Although I wish they'd go back to some sort of riser so we can not worry about destroying the motherboard when installing fans onto Core series processors.
I meant to say was that they seem to do what AMD did, which was float between like, 2 or 3 CPU socket types then settle on one(for the consumer level at least. If you're buying octo-core Xeons you're probably not building it yourself) for a good half decade.
LOL..oh c'mon, it is freakin' obvious they ARE the anti-Fox news. Look at that Ed show, and Oblermann, good Lord, I think I've actually witnessed him spitting saliva while looking bug-eyed going on some of his rants against the right, and even against what I'd consider the middle. If it ain't positive about Obama, he can get absolutely livid. I've not actually seen that level of vitriol come out of the biggest right winger on Fox.
You mean, Alan Keyes, Michael Savage, Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan are liberals?
Also, have you even watched Olbermann's show when he was going on about health care?
You don't need to root in order to install an official signed update, just follow the same procedure as above if you don't want to wait for it to be delivered OTA. HTC phones can be updated in the same way. Stop trying to spread FUD about Android, if you don't know how Android works please remain out of the conversation.
Is the vendor supplying the update? Can the update be installed straight away from an unrooted device?
No? Then saying that the vendor isn't supporting the hardware with the most updated software ISN'T FUD. It's truth.
Looking at the release notes for Drizzy's.1 Alpha release(Of supposedly 2.1 versioned software)... The god damned *camera* doesn't work out of the box with the 2.1 ROM.
Uhm, no? Fuck that. What else isn't going to work? What about 2.2? or 3.0? Will multitouch break at some point? GPS? Texting? MMS?(the HTC Hero has a bug in it's shipping ROM as I write this that prevents users from sending MMS over Sprint; so, MMS/SMS breaking isn't out of the question).
This is what's wrong with the Android ecosystem, and no, it's not FUD for FUD's sake. FUD? Sure. I'm always afraid of shit that doesn't work. Don't go around spreading the joys of a horribly broken ecosystem.
Keith Olbermann quit MSNBC in the 90's over the Lewinski scandal(yes, to return to MSNBC with Countdown)
But this is why I honestly watch MSNBC. If it's the inverse of Fox, it's not because of political biases, it's over the control they exert on their on air talent(Seriously, if MSNBC had a liberal bias, they would've drawn and quartered michael savage instead of you know, giving him a show).
No one else on cable news covered The Family, the secretive religious organization that's got it's roots deep everywhere in washington, like Rachel Maddow did.
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I thought Apple's stance was the Northern Chinese Shaolin Angry Tiger stance?
When did the Jolly Ranchers become illegal and subject to be excluded from school?
Ever since they had the potential to be a god damned mess in school.
It has nothing to do with nutrition, it has to do with the fact that a wet jolly rancher is a bitch to clean up. Same with gum.
This is what's seriously wrong with our society today, no one wants to deal with nuance or a deeper story.
Instead of some fucking joke?
The Pirate Party is a fucking novelty. If you're working on the pirate party you're not making things better, you're making things worse.
If you were a Green, Libertarian, Free Soil, Whig, Tory, or anything but the current political system, sure, but Pirate Party? C'mon.
Show me a netbook that's projected to sell 10 million units and support a media and application infrastructure that will allow it's manufacturer to continually reap income from the device long after sale?
Thought not.
Come Christmas, the iPad will be *the* tech item to buy.
The Archos 8 though, shows exactly why the iPad is so desirable.
LOOK AT THAT GOD DAMNED BEZEL.
Plus the Archos 7 looks like an oversized iPhone or similar Android device.
Given the iPhone OS 3.2's now hooking Bluetooth keyboards into the keyboard API(Not to mention the Apple Dock keyboard), I'd easily say that no, the iPad IS meant for content creation.
It's just not ment to ape the Netbook formfactor. If I'm at my favorite bar, there's enough room in my bag for a stand, an ipad, and a bluetooth minikeyboard for use with things like SSHTerm should I be called about critical failures with something or another.
How did they make cartridge games in the old days, do you think?
There's a reason why you can make a shield out of used Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt carts and some carts are priced in the collector world at several thousands of dollars.
They made either a lot of them, and if the game flopped, took a huge loss, or didn't make many of them and leave the game's availability scarce.
Discs make sense. Cheap to produce, and you can produce less of them if you think you're just filling a niche audience, and you can produce more units quickly and cheaply should your game turn out to be a runaway hit.
Street Fighter II: World Warrior - SNES: 79.99
Super Street Fighter IV - PS3/Xbox: 39.99
Not only are discs *cheaper*, they have an advantage over ROMs. You can do small sized batches of say, 10k discs, but ROMs had to be sold in lots an order of magnitude greater or more.
I love Top Gear and Doctor Who, like any self respecting fanboy.
In Top Gear's case, I don't want to wait until it's on BBCAmerica, and I don't want them to cut the News, or any of it(which they do to fit in advertising; also, it's censored). I'm willing to pay upwards to $2-$5 an episode if it meant I could download it from a source that's connected to a very fast pipe and released same day as the BBC UK airing.
You're absolutely right. My bad.
Given that economic buying power for the GBP is about 1:1 with the dollar in terms of earnings, a 399 iPad isn't that bad.
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I'll crap on Valve all day because I absolutely do not like Half Life.
Steam, while not perfect, is the best possible gaming drm system in existence.
I'm also glad it's coming to Mac.
the exchange rate is 1 USD to 1.5 GBP
£429 = ~$630 USD.
Yeah. LGA1366.
Not only that, but all that stuff off die is quite frankly, slower.
Although I wish they'd go back to some sort of riser so we can not worry about destroying the motherboard when installing fans onto Core series processors.
I meant to say was that they seem to do what AMD did, which was float between like, 2 or 3 CPU socket types then settle on one(for the consumer level at least. If you're buying octo-core Xeons you're probably not building it yourself) for a good half decade.
Intel's kind of funny like that.
LGA775 was kicking around for like, 5 years before LGA1156, but, Socket 478 was around for about 3 years before *that*.
of course, there's also Socket 7, who can forget those days?
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you mean like the iPhone, and the iPod Touch?
If the iPad came out with out the context of the iPhone, I'd be more inclined to agree with you.
But what would you do with the other 23 hours of news coverage? Copyright legislation just isn't that important to the average viewer.
1 million iPads in 30 days versus 20 million netbooks from dozens of nameless, faceless vendors in 365 days.
iPad sales have plateaued, but I wouldn't be surprised that by the end of the year, that number starts to approach 2 million.
Compared to any given Netbook product this year, the iPad will outsell it by a wide margin.
LOL..oh c'mon, it is freakin' obvious they ARE the anti-Fox news. Look at that Ed show, and Oblermann, good Lord, I think I've actually witnessed him spitting saliva while looking bug-eyed going on some of his rants against the right, and even against what I'd consider the middle. If it ain't positive about Obama, he can get absolutely livid. I've not actually seen that level of vitriol come out of the biggest right winger on Fox.
You mean, Alan Keyes, Michael Savage, Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan are liberals?
Also, have you even watched Olbermann's show when he was going on about health care?
Maybe ACTA and the DMCA aren't that important to everyone aside from geeks?
You don't need to root in order to install an official signed update, just follow the same procedure as above if you don't want to wait for it to be delivered OTA. HTC phones can be updated in the same way. Stop trying to spread FUD about Android, if you don't know how Android works please remain out of the conversation.
Is the vendor supplying the update? Can the update be installed straight away from an unrooted device?
No? Then saying that the vendor isn't supporting the hardware with the most updated software ISN'T FUD. It's truth.
Looking at the release notes for Drizzy's .1 Alpha release(Of supposedly 2.1 versioned software)... The god damned *camera* doesn't work out of the box with the 2.1 ROM.
Uhm, no? Fuck that. What else isn't going to work? What about 2.2? or 3.0? Will multitouch break at some point? GPS? Texting? MMS?(the HTC Hero has a bug in it's shipping ROM as I write this that prevents users from sending MMS over Sprint; so, MMS/SMS breaking isn't out of the question).
This is what's wrong with the Android ecosystem, and no, it's not FUD for FUD's sake. FUD? Sure. I'm always afraid of shit that doesn't work. Don't go around spreading the joys of a horribly broken ecosystem.
We already do. The only major TV news source that doesn't share a parent company with a U.S. movie studio is the Public Broadcasting Service.
What do movies have to do with the News?
I mean, other than the bizarre fixation with MPAA the /. crowd has?
I mean, Fuck the MPAA, they're evil, but, there's a lot going on in the world than just movies and TV.
Keith Olbermann quit MSNBC in the 90's over the Lewinski scandal(yes, to return to MSNBC with Countdown)
But this is why I honestly watch MSNBC. If it's the inverse of Fox, it's not because of political biases, it's over the control they exert on their on air talent(Seriously, if MSNBC had a liberal bias, they would've drawn and quartered michael savage instead of you know, giving him a show).
No one else on cable news covered The Family, the secretive religious organization that's got it's roots deep everywhere in washington, like Rachel Maddow did.